Aristocrat Houses

A list of the Aristocrat houses and who the head of the families are.

Mural Nobles

These are the three ruling families in Unk'Kotoll, who tend to act as the primary power for the country. The Mural families are the Kusund, Bravlet, and Bratena, with their respective heads being referred to collectively as the Mural Heads. The most common portrayal is the three family symbols or current head cameo's within a reversed pentagon, with the Kusund on top and the Bratena and Bravlet below. The positioning is based on the traditional throne layout, with the Kusund right hand being Bravlet and the lefthand being Bratena (so it follows ship rules, where one is always port and one is always starboard no matter how you are oriented).

Kusund

One of the three mural noble houses

The Kusund House is considered to be the Lord’s Clan - it’s the house that was meticulously continued and made from the sole group that pulled away from the ideals of the rest of the world after the Last Days. They’re bloodthirsty, an act first act questions later kind of people, always willing to fight for anything that would keep them on the top of the chain.

As stated earlier, they’re meticulous about continuing their bloodline. They’re the one house that cares the most about it, and when it comes down to the possibility of some relationships being unable to continue it, arrangements are made. They will either adopt children from the same bloodline from the other aristocratic families that live alongside them on their plate, or will opt for ways of surrogacy in order to continue this tradition.

When it comes to careers, the Kusund House are typically always fighters. They focus on military strength and internal enforcer strength, but will find ways of fitting in within other branches. If there’s a fight on the top side, there’s usually a Kusund House among them.

• Lead by: Tsili Kusund
• Location: Unk'Kotoll
• House Colors: Gold, maroon, purple.
• House Symbols: A bird with open wings in midflight, with a five pointed star above and below it.

Bravlet

One of the three mural noble houses

Bravlet House are one of the few families that had joined the Kusund House in the centuries before, with their main bloodline being the typical military focused individuals that tended to be better at thinking up strategies and plans to win against their enemies. They’re strict but punctual, often engaging in tasks that are regimented and organized.

They, too, are meticulous about their bloodline, but not as intense about it as the Kusund House. In much of the same way, if there is the inability to continue the bloodline, they are likely to adopt or potentially surrogate another to continue the bloodline.

Careers for the Bravlet house are always involving the military. They work hard to ensure they have the greatest minds and strongest people to make sure Kotoll’s borders are secure and safe. They are also the house that produces some of the best military diplomats that often go and interact with the surrounding states as well.

Much unlike the Kusund, however, Bravlet House is also one that acknowledges those from other houses that may be beneficial to their status as well. Known for inviting others to abandon their house and join under their name, provided you prove yourself to be valuable within their ranks.

• Lead by: Kosbra Bravlet
• Location: Unk'Kotoll
• House Colors: Cream, brown, scarlet red.
• House Symbols: A horizontal longsword with one empty circle above the blade and three filled in circles below it, usually done in a subtle color that matches whatever it's on. If it's meant to stand out, it's usually either the brown or scarlet red of the house colors. If it's in full color, the three lower dots are cream, brown, and scarlet red, in that order, while the sword and upper circle are both in black.

Bratena

One of the three mural noble houses

The most lawful of the houses is the Bratena House. Born and raised around books and training, this house covers all that may be required of those in charge of making sure the state runs as smoothly as they can. Like the Bravlet House, they are organized, but they’re also note takers. This is the house that creates and enacts the law. This is also the house that enacts justice on whether those laws have been broken.

Unlike the Kusund and Bravlet House, this house is much less strict on continuing the whole bloodline. Oftentimes others from other houses are married in, promising the strengthening and wit of their offspring to be the best minds they can be.

Those that come from the Bratena House district are almost always Enforcers, though it isn’t uncommon to have some Bratena House get swept up by the Bravlet House when it comes to what kind of prowess they have in strategic planning.

They do, however, have a strict tradition when it comes to potential pools for succeeding the Arbiter. Trials must be performed and the winners of those get placed into a ‘winning pool’ to be drawn from to perform in another Trial to see who becomes the next Arbiter. Once one has won the initial Trial, they go through more training and obtain ranks and teams of their own in the hopes that being out on the streets would make them able to make wiser choices on crafting laws in the future.

• Lead by: Shaju Bratena
• Location: Unk'Kotoll
• House Colors: Greys, navy blue accents, blacks.
• House Symbols: A dagger pointed down in a mixture of grey and black, with a wreath of navy blue behind it pointing upward.

Koselik

When it comes to any kind of goods, services, and sales, it’s likely there’s been a Koselik House hand in it. This is the house that’s put together the best way to manufacture, produce, procure, and ship the best of what Kotoll has to offer. They often deal with internal shipping and production between the states, but they’re also known to have connections outside of Kotoll, bringing in exotic wares and goods… For a price, of course.

This house is less likely to care about bloodlines and instead whether the individual makes either a prospective salesperson or a valuable addition to the goods and services they work with. This is one of the aristocratic houses known for marrying outside of their own bloodline quite often.

Koselik House individuals tend to be merchants, salespeople, owners or high ups of manufacturing warehouses, and other positions of that nature.

• Lead by: Hedren Koselik
• Location: Stistun
• House Colors: Light yellow, dark green, occasionally copper.
• House Symbols: A dark green oak leaf with a light yellow key diagonally set within it. Sometimes the oak leaf has copper edges.

Tsunkif

The Tsunkif House, also known as the House of the Occult, is where magic users are found. With Kotoll being an area with a variety of terrain, Undunli makes for a decent spot for magic users to reach into their elements and learn to expand their knowledge. This is the most diverse of the Aristocrat Houses, given that those that are able to wield magic are not from one specific lineage, but only those that tap into it and practice can become masters with it. This leads to the House in particular to offer up hefty sums for children and adults with promising abilities, offering them gold and the Tsunkif name and protections.

These Aristocrats are often given familiars to help with their training, and with the training they are taught to either become crafters or soldiers. Soldiers will often be paired up with groups from the Bratena or Bravlet Houses for positions in either the military or Kotoll’s internal Enforcer units.

This House cares the least for bloodlines. It’s commonplace for them to adopt those with magical prowess and treat them as if they are all of the same family.

• Lead by: Ariel Tsunkif
• Location: Undunli
• House Colors: Bright blue-white, yellow, dark grey.
• House Symbols: A wooden dark grey wand with a yellow snake wrapped around it. Four bright blue-white stars also sit in each corner.

Garsen

Considered the most spiritual of the aristocratic houses, the Garsen House is the one most people go to when it comes to advice. They tend to become advisors, often living a life revolving around spiritual and religious texts. In some cases, their word is the final word.

This house often marries out its best to other houses in order to offer guidance and good luck to those houses. At present, this house works uncomfortably close to the Bratena House.

Like the Kusund and the Bravlet Houses, the Garsen House is particular about its pairings for bloodlines and marriage. They’re often married for status or the potential for spiritual heirs.

• Lead by: Nagela Garsen
• Location: Garanenz
• House Colors: Dark purple, lime green, light grey.
• House Symbols: Symbolized mainly by an open book with a moon above it. Which phase of the moon will depend on how high of a ranking you stand within the house.

Tinizun

The Tinizun House is one of the houses that is standoffish from the other aristocratic houses. This is a House made up of bright thinkers, geared toward architecture from how much lumber they tend to export. They also have a large population that focuses on theater and the arts. Most of the time, this House falls in line with the rest of the Aristocratic Houses when it comes to keeping themselves and the Bourgeoisie’s separate from the Proletariats and Immigrants, but there have been a fair few free thinkers that challenge this view. There have been times where nobles from other houses who don’t fit into the role they were born into, will leave to join this House in order to remain an Aristocrat but without the pressure to fall into line.

Upon occasion, because of how many art and culture curators and architects are located within this House, they will occasionally work with the Koselik House if they have things of note for sale.

This House is less caring on bloodlines, given that it’s somewhat become an amalgamation of other noble houses from those that deem themselves unfit for where they came from. For the most part, anything goes within the Tinizun House.

• Lead by: Katsun Tinizun
• Location: Palladol
• House Colors: Lilac accents, dark green, greys.
• House Symbols: A light grey shield with a pen and paint brush colored dark purple crossed on top of it, splattered with droplets of lime green reminiscent of paint.

Tsundis

The best way to describe the Tsundis House is to describe them as the black sheep of the Aristocratic Houses. Tsundis House can be ruthless when needed, but their values have shifted hard from the traditional values of the Mural Nobles. They are often closest to the Tinizun House because of this reason. Being from a coastal state, it allows for this house to have their way with their choices more often, but they are still untrustworthy to the Bravlet/Kusund/Bratena Houses.

Tsundis House rules by other regulations than the rest of the noble houses, but because their exports with crops and their large fishing and wine communities, it makes it difficult for the other houses to try and get them back in line. It’s been decades since the rest of the houses have tried.

It’s a House where anything goes, this extends to relationships, duties, and bloodlines; where the aristocracy here only seems to care about how you might benefit their city.

• Lead by: Dia Tsundis
• Location: Dinalla
• House Colors: Teal, yellow, silver accents, white.
• House Symbols: A white and yellow octopus with each tentacle gradating into teal.